The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 9, 1915, Page 8

SIS RS SR + EIGHT THE NONPARTISAN LEADER The most unkindest cut we know . of is a cut in the ptice of wheat. They say wheat is going. up,—as soon -as the farmers have 'sold all theirs. : § Jamestown is going to get a new Northern Pacific passenger depot in the near future. Be.njamin Taylor, a retired farmer of Richland’ cotinty, “has given $500 to Wah}')eton library. ; The League wants a dollar and a half a bushel and intends to get it. What do you want?. : Now they are-going to pull the League because its growth is exceed- ing the speed limit.. - . - .~ The farmer raises what he pleases and gets what the combine pleases. The combine is organized. The creamery at Golden Valley has opened for business and has started out under favorable auspices. The farmers around Charbonneau will build a creamery in that little city. It will probably be in opera- tion next spring. Mrs Stephen Pitts was burned to death last week in a kerosene fire at her farm home, twenty-five miles southwest of Minot. " Arrangements have been completed for locating a flouring mill at Stan- ley and that work will be started on the building at once. The Farmers Threshing Co. of Low- ery township, Wells county, pays splendid dividends this season on the capital invested. Cooperation. A Des Moines Hail and Cyclone In- surance Company is owing for losses in the state to the amount of $22,000. The state officials are after their bonds. Don’t make any mistake. Every man in the League is in, it for the money—more money for his crops. If you want more money do your part. While driving a bunch of cattle from Snow to his farm. near Belfield, Stephen Palanuk sustained a dislo- cated, shoulder. by a fall from his horse. The Nonpartisan League is already just three times the size of its founders expected it to be a year from now. Who said farmers can’t organize? Dickinson’s annual corn show will be held Dec. 15, 16, 17 and, 18. A poultry show, under the direction of the Stark county Poultry associ- ation will be a feature. Don’t fail to give the League or- ganizer a lift for a day. It won’t hurt your team and it won’t hurt you; and it will eventually mean thou- sands of dollars to all of us. - -fication work. the building ~material is on the ground. 'If is exrected to be in op- eration withing a few months, * The midwinter fair held at Valley City Dec. 9,710 ‘and -11 was a big cess and ‘many farmers and fami- lies from the surrounding country enjoyed, themselves'.as guésts of the city. / .- A. J. Gaumnitz at Morton is urg- ing the formatiofi‘ of farmers qlu»bsr in Morton county as'a means of im- proving farm ‘conditions. through co- operative -experimental’ and. diyersi- 7:’1‘,wen>tvy-five,_stpéks of hay and flour stacks of grain were destroyed by _the fire east of Voltaire last week. The section men were burning fire- breaks when the fire got beyond their control. Attention to details pays. When- ever writing to advertisers mention the LEADER. It will mean more revenue for the LEADER and more strength to the good right arm of our LEAGUE. . The farmers of Barnes county are organizing to locate the state pack- ing plant of the Equity Society at Valley City. A special train carrying delegates to the St. Paul convention this week was run from Valley City. If your wife is not as enthusiastic as you would like it is because she does not fully understand the pur- pose of this League. Make its im- portance plain to her once and she will beat you hands down at boost- ing, A change has been made in the personnel of the board of control. Hon. J. W. Jackson of Williston re- signed to accept another position, and Senator Willard Overson, whose home is at Williston, was appointed to fill the vacancy. Now that the hogs are medium size the packing combine is calling for heavy weights. Next spring when hogs are full size they will call for light ones. Anything to keep their buying price down and their selling price up. They’re organized. Among the laws killed by the last business man’s legislature there wasn’t one that wouldn’t have meant from five to ten times the cost of a membership in the League to every quarter section. Next session they will not be killed. The Farmers Elevator Co., at Sher- wood is making a switch from a reg- ular stock company plan to the co- operative plan.” Owners of stock in the old company are sending to the secretary their shares of stock to be TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS After many troubles which sur- round the "large undertaking of publishing and = mailing a paper such as the Leader, which egan operations with 20,000 subscribers and now has mounted to 30,000 in 8 few short weeks, we are sure that every subscriber was properly mailed his paper last week, Now if you are asubzcriber and a member of the League and don’t get the Leader regularly each week we want to hear from you, and then we will see why you don't get it and make sure that you do; if you hear any of your ‘neighbors say -they don’t get the paper tell us a- bout it, as above everything else .we want everyone to get the Lead- er, as the things in it each week are of espgzcial interest and should not be missed. Will send you back copies if you have missed any. So come on with your complaints if you have any to make. Russia has put in an order for 10,000 Pullman cars. At least we may feel reasonably certain that the grand dukes are going to the front, or somewhere.—Grand Rapids Press. e e e 'MOTHER exchanged for shares in the new com- pany.. “. ¢ }. et Thirfy-seven, ‘bushels of Grimm'al- “falfa “seed from seventéen acres is the yield reported. by J. E. Raze, a McKinzie county farnier.- This.means about 2,000 ‘pounds of seed, and at 75 cents a pound which: it will probably sell for locally, a‘ return, of $88 an acre. ! ; LR - Threshing' in ~ the vicinity of Streeter is just about finithed. there are perhaps'a ‘few who ‘are ‘yet un- threshed but,' ‘with: the ‘favorable weather: there. is. little: danger. but what. all will- get through, * This has_ been- an ' enormous, “crop, " and _the threshers have been- very busy’ this * fall. . Governor Hanna will be gone from. the state for some months, having accepted an invitation extended, by Henry Ford to accompany hundreds of American:( to Europe in an at- tempt to bring about peace among the waring nations. The lieutenant governor will be the acting governor for the time being. - The River View Local of Equity, McKenzie county, has adopted reso- lutions pledging the members to re- fuse to use Occident flour or any other brand of flour milled by the Russell-Miller Milling Co., until such a time as that company will buy wheat from the Equity elevators and members. A special train will be run from Minto to St. Paul this week to ac- commodate the delegates to. the grain growers national convention. The county commissioners of Ward county will go in a body on the train The Minot delegation are particular- ly interested in trying to secure the Equity Packing plant of that city. A Bismarck man raised 900 tons of alfalfa this season and shipped twelve cars of cattle from St, Paul markets to feed on it. 900 tons of alfalfa in North Dakota by one man in one season would hardly be be- lieved by an easterner, but its get- ting common now; everybody is do- ing it. Otto Fogel, a 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fogel, living near Havana, had one of his legs nearly cut off when he was struck by the sickle of a binder he was oper- ating. The sickle guard, struck = stone and the boy was engaged in removing it when the team started up. Threshing 4,900 bushels of grain from 150 acres, L. A. Mann of Lone Tree has a crop valued at more than he paid for his land. A year ago Mann purchased the farm and this year the single crop brings back to ‘mixup ~Mr. Olson The State News in Pointed Paragraphs *Ground has been broken for Alex- ander’s new flour mill and, some" of him the entire purchase price and then some: - On his 500 acres Mann raised 16,000 bushels of gmin,;‘ break- ing His previous record. The “small grains grown in the vi- cinity of Sherwood this season p'l_'om-A ises-a total yield of a million apd a quarter or more. Three hundreq ap‘_d thrity-four .cars have. been shipped to date, and this is_variously esti- mated at from a third to a half of the crop totaled 485 cars. - Fred Olson, whose,farm’ adjoins townsite on the ‘south, is’suffering from injuries recgived 'vaft' Roseglen Monday, when he attempted to bring two head, of cattle home in-a lumber wagor, - 'Hé had driven about a mile when the-wagon tipped over. In the sustained three fractured ribs, injuries in his back and shoulder, and a deep scalp wound, which required five stitches to hold together. Four sections of land a few miles southeast of Towner have been set apart by the state game and fish board as a game refuge, the first to be established in the state. The tract is to be a game refuge for ten years; all hunting will be forbidden, The game laws provide a heavy penalty for being found within 159 feet of the refuge with firearms. The tract will be posted every 80 rods around its triitory. It is well timbered, and especially adapted for grouse and deer. Here’s the way one Walsh county farmer talked to his neighbor: “Dave I would stake my life that this league will bring back ten times what we are out; everything I’ve got that we’ll get returns equal to one hundred times the membership fee; and have every confidence that be- fore we are done with it we will make more back that a thousand times what we have paid out. It may makes mistakes but the principle is sound and it is up to us farmers to see it through.” There was an exciting chase after grain thieves a few miles east of New England last week. A. farmer saw two young men drive a team up to an open grain bin and load it with oats; he surprised them and they. started to run; by arousing the farmers all along the road the thiev €s were soon captured and, they were taken to New England for trial. The two young men pleaded, guilty and were sentenced to serve 15 days in jail and, pay a fine of $10 for petif larceny. Much grain has been stolen this season, but the arrest of these thieves at New England should serve as a warning. KILL JOY ————————————— ABOUT OUR ADVERTISERS The Leader is beginning to be appreciated by local and foreign | advertisers as an advertising med- ium that brings them results, and they can only be made to see that if*the readers of the Leader will make it their duty when purchas- ing goods to purchase fram adver- tisers in these columns and then tell them that is the reason you you do buy from them. If the merchant whom you patronize does not advertise in the Leader ask him why, and then teli him that hereafter you are going to buy from those who patronize your pa- per. Here is a splendid way for every farmer to aid the Leader to be a better and stronger paper, and they should only patronize their friends. If the merchant doesn’t want to advertise in your ' paper he does not want your busi- ness, and the merchant who does, why show him you appreciate his support of your paper by buyin from him, t us have the plgdgg of ever e farmer and, his family on this, The Leader is your pager and odvocates your cause; and you should pledge yourself to patronize those who #dvertise in its columns, Try it and see the results. i Vir L *l Ny f 4l % { . RS "! F T v v { ! ! ~ i - Bl ! - i - v e | | v! @ £o4on ¥ 9 ~ e | a Ao & NEAC § s i 1 W e i v -r Ewe